The moment you set your foot on the path of liberation, you are apt to find that all your karmic creditors will come to your door. And that's why it's often said that people who start out on a serious work of yoga suddenly get sick and lose their money and their best friends drop dead and all kind of ghastly things happen. That's because they served notice that they were going to do this [. . .] Even if you serve notice privately on yourself that suddenly you're going to drop it all, already the Devil knows–because who do you think the Devil is?

- Alan Watts

hence zen (and not the formalised ritualised sitting and spouting)